Well something is causing your memory to fail... I listened to virtually everyone of Bush's daily speeches every morning and all we heard was WMD ad nauseum..... Operation Iraqi Liberation became the excuse when it was beginning to be clear that WMD may not be found......you will recall that Rummy had said, "we know where they are!"
As to the semantics of "imminent" here is Molly Ivens column where she articulates it better than others I have read..
dfw.com
"Last week, CIA director George Tenet said intelligence analysts never told the White House "that Iraq posed an imminent threat."
Let's start with the absurd quibble over the word imminent.
The word was, in fact, used by three administration spokesmen to describe the Iraqi threat, while Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld variously described it as "immediate," "urgent," "serious and growing," "terrible," "real and dangerous," "significant," "grave," "serious and mounting," "the unique and urgent threat," "no question of the threat," "most dangerous threat of our time," "a threat of unique urgency," "much graver than anybody could possibly have imagined," and so forth and so on.
So could we can that issue?
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